Getting rid of duplicate images

Hi there, I've ended up with 2+ sets of each photo in my iphoto library. All photos are in the iphoto library only as I cleaned up the rest of my folders and deleted them from finder. I have Aperture and want to import the entire iPhoto library into Aperture Library and delete the iPhoto library. I want to clean up the duplicates at some point as well. Is there an easy way to delete the duplicates or do I have to go through 50,000 photos and manually delete each duplicate/triplicate etc.? Is it easier to do before or after importing into Aperture?

See my response to your post on the iPhoto forum.
Regards
TD

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Many third party utilities claim to clean out a hard drive of various detritus, but some times will deleted data that it shouldn't and delete important data and that it shouldn't have.
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If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
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